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On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
Somewhere between Audre Lorde's 1979 speech and contemporary tech discourse, the "master's tools" became a meme. This essay traces what was lost in the translation.…
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I Was Wrong About the Open Source Bubble
A follow-up, and a correction. Revisiting the open source bubble argument after the responses came in, including the ones that stopped at the title.…
Suspending X: Brazil’s Ongoing Struggle to Govern Big Tech
Musk called it a free-speech violation. Brazil called it refusing to follow the law. Past the inflammatory tweets, what the suspension of X reveals about whether any state can govern Big Tech.…
Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst?
Open source isn't a hype bubble like crypto or the metaverse. It's something stranger: a real one, built on how completely the digital world has come to depend on work it barely funds.…
Faking Git Till You Make It: Open Source Maintainers Beware of Reputation Farming
It has a name: reputation farming. The under-reported, slightly dangerous practice of manufacturing open source credibility through hollow GitHub activity, and why maintainers should care.…
What on Earth is Open Source AI?
The Open Source AI definition fight, from someone who thinks the AI gold rush is both an environmental disaster and badly oversold. What 'open' can and cannot mean once you bolt it onto a model.…
Can I figure out if I'm legally required to use an SBOM in my OSS without asking a lawyer?
SBOMs keep showing up in cybersecurity regulation, and the rules are a maze. One open-source developer's attempt to work out what actually applies, armed with a search engine and no lawyer.…
What's Elections got to EU with IT
It's EU Parliament election season. A short, non-partisan recap of the recent digital regulations, from AI to privacy to cybersecurity, that reach well beyond Europe's borders.…
Let's Talk About Open Source in Munich (and Everywhere Else)
Schleswig-Holstein is dropping Microsoft Office for LibreOffice, and the framing matters as much as the switch. On public-sector open source, and what the migration is really about.…